2011 ENRE Awards

2011 best publication award in forestry:
Winners: Patrik Flisberg(The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden), Bertil Lidén (The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden), and Mikael Rönnqvist (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

2011 best publication award in Energy:
Winners: Carlos Ruiz Mora and Antonio Conejo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain)

2011 best publication award in Energy:
Winners: John Raffensperger, Mark Mile and Grant Read (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)

2011 Student Paper Travel Award:
Winner: Sheng Yu (The George Washington University)

Best Publication Award (for papers published in year 2009, Nomination deadline: April 30th, 2011)

Details: The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the best refereed journal articles (in the areas of energy and forestry) published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. For the 2011 awards, only articles that were published during the calendar year 2009 can be nominated. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the research areas of Forestry and Energy. Therefore, separate awards will be given in each area, and membership during the year of the nomination will be a requirement for the nominator. Membership for the nominee will not be a requirement. The award will be presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting of 2011. Nominations will be received until April 30, 2011. Nominated publications will be judged by separate three members committees for each area (Forestry and Energy) with respect to impact and originality. The award will consist of a plaque.

The nomination process consists of sending of a nominationpackage containing:

* A nomination form that will include information on thenominator, nominee, full reference of the article, and the area of nomination: Energy or Forestry

* A copy of the article written in English
There are two ways of nominating an article for an award.

* Self-nomination: One of the authors, who should be a member of the ENRE subdivision at the year of the nomination, may nominate his/her published article. It is acceptable that the work has been published with other authors who are not member of ENRE.

* Work nominated by others: A member of the ENRE subdivision,at the year of the nomination, may nominate an article for an award. In this case, authors need not be members of ENRE.

Consistent with the INFORMS conflict of interest policy, papers written by INFORMS ENRE officers or the competition judges, or by their students will not be considered.

The deadline for nomination for papers published during 2009 is April 30th, 2011.

For Energy publications please submit your nomination in electronic format to:

Professor Shmuel S. Oren
E-MAIL: oren@ieor.berkeley.edu

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

University of California at Berkeley
Etcheverry Hall 4119

Berkeley, CA 94720-1777

TEL: (510) 642-1836 or 5484

FAX: (510) 642-1403

For Forestry publications please submit your nomination in electronic format to:

Professor Andres Weintraub

E-MAIL: aweintra@dii.uchile.cl

Department of Industrial Engineering

University of Chile

República 701, Santiago, Chile

Tel: +56 (2) 678-4046

Fax: +56 (2) 689-7895

Student Travel Scholarship

The award is given annually to the best paper dealing with energy, environmental or natural resource issues by a student author who is presenting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, as judged by a panel of the Energy and Natural Resources and the Environment Section. The award is accompanied by a certificate and a $300 honorarium.

Application Process

Requirements of eligibility for students applying to this year's competition are:

1. student who did not complete their Ph.D. prior to May 1, 2010 and
2. student will be presenting a talk at the 2011 INFORMS Annual Meeting held in Charlotte, NC.

If you wish to submit an abstract for this year's meeting, please contact Marc McDill at mem14@psu.edu for papers related to forestry, Ramteen Sioshansi at sioshansi.1@osu.edu for papers related to energy, Alexandra Newman at anewman@mines.edu for papers related to mining, or Hayri Önal at h-onal@illinois.edu for papers related to the environment and sustainability.

All students conducting research in or related to energy, mining, sustainability, environmental or natural resource issues (including theory development, applications, optimization, econometrics, simulation) are encouraged to submit a paper. The work must be predominately that of the student, although faculty members or other mentors can be co-authors if appropriate. The paper should be 30 pages or less (double-spaced and 12-point font) and in the standard format of the INFORMS’ journals Management Science or Operations Research. Students do not need to be ENRE members to be eligible for the competition, however membership is encouraged.

To be considered for this year's competition, please submit an electronic version in MS Word or PDF format via e-mail to either of the Prize Co-Chairs by July 1, 2011. The prize is awarded at the ENRE business meeting at the INFORMS National Meeting.

2011 Committee Co-Chairs:

Enzo E. Sauma

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Ave. Vicuna Mackenna 4860
Macul, Santiago, Chile
Email: esauma@ing.puc.cl

Stephanie Snyder

USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108 USA
Email: stephaniesnyder@fs.fed.us

Please encourage your students and/or qualified research associates to apply.

ENRE 2010 Awards

1) 2010 Best Paper Presentation in Energy Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper presented in the Energy Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation. The INFORMS 2010 winners of the Best Paper in Energy Sponsored Session are (award to be presented in INFORMS 2011 at Charlotte, NC):

• Title: Reliability Evaluation of Wind Turbine via Computer Simulation and Laboratory Experiments
  Authors: Haitao Liao, Seyed Ahmad Niknam, and Janet Twomey

Thanks to all the 2010 ENRE session chairs that helped in the judging process.

2) 2010 Best Paper Presentation in Forestry Sponsored Sessions:

The prize recognizes the best paper(s) presented in the Forestry Cluster sessions. The award is based on technical merit and quality of presentation (award to be presented in INFORMS 2011 at Charlotte, NC).

• Nóra Könnyu, Sándor F. Tóth (School of Forest Resources, University of Washington)
  A Cutting Plane Method for Solving Harvest Scheduling Models with Area Restrictions.
• Yan Feng, Sophie D’Amours, Luc Lebel, Mustapha Nour El Fath (Department of mechanical engineering, Université Laval, Pavillon Adrien Pouliot, Québec,)
  Strategic Planning for an Integrated and Sustainable Bio-energy and Forest Products Supply Chain

3) 2010 Student Paper Travel Award:

The scholarships facilitates students to travel to an INFORMS meeting to present their work. Travel expenditures up to $300 are paid. The INFORMS 2010 Student Travel Scholarship winner is:

• Li Xu
  Title of presentation: Carbon Emission Permit Price Volatility Mitigation via Financial Options, with Shi-Jie Deng and
  Valerie Thomas

4) 2010 ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy:

This is a new award that is given annually to the best refereed journal article published two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. The INFORMS 2009 Best Publication Award winners are:

• Jian Yao, Ilan Adler and Shmuel S. Oren, University
  of California, Berkeley
  Title: Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network

5) 2010 ENRE Best Publication Award in Forestry:

• Alastair McNaughton and David Ryan for their paper "Adjacency Branches Used To Optimize Forest Harvesting Subject to Area Restrictions on Clearfell" that appeared in volume 54 of Forest Science.

The committee for this award included Sophie D'Amours (chair), Dave Martell and Marc McDill (Penn State University).